Business Simulators

by Luis Vergani

In
these pages 'Business Simulation Games' you will find the
documentation,
description and support materials for the business simulation workshops
offered by Luis Vergani's team.

Our goal

Help to improve your management skills by using the technology
intelligently.

Our philosophy

This is not just a business - nothing is more fun than doing what you
love to do!
We are a team of practitioners and teachers who offer only those
services we know how to provide well.

Driving forces

Our value proposition is all about the intelligent aplication of
technology to the business, focusing on a few core concepts: knowledge
managent, technology management and simulation scenarios.

Who are we

We are a team of specialists in several related fields, lead by Luis
Vergani.
We inhabit the virtual space, physically based in Buenos
Aires, Argentina.
We are willing to interchange information, share experiences, explore
business opportunities.
We kindly invite you to contact us via e-mail, we will answer!

The methodology

All these courses and
modules contain concrete and quantitative examples in digital form,
that the participants keep after the workshops. The exercises deploy
simulation models and business games.

We prioritize the contents, applying the latest informacion technology
not to show off, but in order to improve the efficacy,
efficiency and user friendliness of the learning process.

The business simulation programs

Several
programs are offered, all in the format of business simulation
workshops.
All of them share some distinctive characteristics:

Target

In-company training.

Open courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels, as
well as executive education programs.

Building blocks of the companies' professional development
programs.

Diferenciation

Students and employers pay ever more attention at the cost / benefit
ratio of the tranining programs.
If a program fails to deliver an applicable toolbox, will be discarded.
It is no longer sufficient with the unidirectional teaching mode so
loved by many business schools: it is also necessary to train for the
action.
Business games workshops like these used to be avoided because ot their
prohibitive cost - not any more.
These games are economically and easily implemented, allowing the
participants the inmersion in a high efficient learn-by-doing process.

Teaching style

They are theoretical-practical presential workshops.
They can be seen as an evolution of the case method: to solve the
dynamic case in real time, quatitatively, with near instantaneous
feedback, in competition with other teams.
The role of the instructor is crucial: this is nothing like a game in
the cloud.

International

The workshops are available in English and in Spanish. They are beeing
used througout the Americas and Spain.

Required infrastructure

The workshop takes place in a room with the usual facilities:
whiteboad, flipchart, etc., and in particular::

A digital projector.

Internet access for the instructor's PC.

The game runs on an IT platform. Each competing team operates a
workstation.
The simulation program and the database are located at the instructor's
machine, which the teams' PCs access through a wired or wireless
network.
Two frequent scenarios are:

To work in an existent IT room, normally configured by the
IT tech personnel.

To
use the intructor's own laptop plus a wirless router. The students
utilize their own laptops, which access the WiFi router and execute the
program residing in the instructor's machine. Nothing needs to be
installed in the teams' PCs. See the support page.

Some references

These simulation workshops were born in the 90's at the Engineering
School of the University of Buenos Aires.
Evolving in their didactic concept as well as in their IT platform,
they are now MS VisualStudio applications.
They are deployed in college environment at ITBA, EOI, UTDT, UTN and
MateriaBiz.
And in the corporate world at Techint, Siemens, Philip Morris, Coca
Cola and others.

Download

You may download the SimSim
simulator in its "team" version.

Unload this file simsim.zip und uncompress its contents to
any folder of a local storage unit, or to a pen drive.

Execute SimSim.exe. The first time the
application will ask for startup options, please take the following:
and take the following options:

Languaje: your choice,
English and Spanish are currently available

Database: Access

The data file name is:
simsim.mdb

Company: A

Company password: AAAA

These options will be
rememberd. The next times the app will take them automatically.
For further information, please refer to the SimSim page. For technical issues see the support page.

Copyright
notice

All the contents exposed in
these pages are intelectual property of Luis Vergani.
They are published for the students' individual training, and for
evaluation purposes, not to be utilized in collective training sessions.The programs presented
here
are not freeware, nor shareware, open source or GNU: it is all
commercial software, and as such any unauthorized usage is subject to
prosecution within the extent of the law.Should you be interested
in utilizing these tools, please contact us to agree conditions.
We will answer!